POLL: Meme of the Week – December 7th

[NeoGreen]

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Meme of the Week
Selected postings of Atheist Memes



1) Curie…




2) Tesla…





3) Hey, did you read the latest in Science?…

(<Wink>, awwww...look at em', they're kind of cute, when they're all sincere and deferential with their bowed heads…)



4) BIBLE!…

(pronounced…Bib…L…eee…)



5) None/All/Some/Other of the Above (please post example)

8 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Time expired
	Curie...
	2 (25%)
	Tesla...
	0 (0%)
	Dinner Party...
	2 (25%)
	BIBLE!...
	4 (50%)
	None/All/Some/Other of the Above
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[onager]

1. Bible!

Yep, that sums it up perfectly...

[Promethean]

2. I love Tesla

but his quote is half wrong. There is a rather obvious conflict between the pursuit of knowledge and domination through ignorance.

[trotsky]

4. Yup.

I couldn't vote for that one for that same reason.

[NeoGreen]

8. I guess I read a stress on the word...

..."ideal"...

Being an understanding of the world as it (really) is and not as we want it to be:

"the ideal of religion...", which in my opinion the religious faction(s) is/are falling farther and farther from...

and

"the ideal of science...", which in my opinion we are ever improving and thus closing in on...

However, upon reflection, maybe I am just falling into a Gouldian Non-Overlapping Magisteria framework (which I must admit, I have used to successfully deflect criticism from far-right/extremist/deep-red crazies.

[Promethean]

10. Its only that way by modern standards.

The point he was trying to make is solid its just stuck with an old cultural construct that is currently being torn down. The culture of Tesla's time had religion as assumed to be a positive thing. Unfortunately for Tesla's quote part of the objective now is to fight that automatic assumption of benevolence associated with religion. So I can applaud his being one of the early intellectuals declaring religion to have no factual basis but I cannot support the assumption of benevolence.

[beam me up scottie]

3. Atheist pig!

[Nitram]

5. I'd vote for the Mme Curie one except for the fact that, ironically,

....she died of the radiation she was studying. Turns out there was good reason to fear the phenomena she was striving to understand.

[Brainstormy]

6. I categorically disagree with that quote

but it doesn't (much) diminish my admiration for Curie.

[NeoGreen]

9. I guess I admire her...

...for her bravery and lack of fear, which has allowed us more understanding.

Yes, she paid a price as an individual, but humanity gained much understanding from her bravery.

Should we have stopped manned space exploration after the Apollo 1 disaster?

Because of the higher risk of death in the process of exploration?

I would not say that everyone must accept that level of risk, but I would allow anyone who is brave enough to reach for new knowledge to do so as they please (within certain caveats, provisos, exemptions and reasonable limits of course...yes I hedge...)

[mountain grammy]

7. First and foremost in my heart: Atheist Pig!

[gelatinous cube]

11. Atheist Pig was close second,

but only because the third one had me actually laughing out loud.